Conquering the HARDEST Map I've Played in Caesar 3's River Frontier!

Can we actually beat this hardest map? Time to build a Roman city in Caesar 3! Areas to unlock, challenging invasions, and difficult terrain for city building on River Frontier. Thanks to Skillshare for sponsoring! The first 1,000 people to use the link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare skl.sh/gamerzakh08231 Cancel in 30 days and there's ZERO charge, so take a bunch of courses for free!
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[@GamerZakh]

What a map! Had to pull out all the stops for this one. Also thanks to Skillshare for sponsoring. Seriously try the free trial here: skl.sh/gamerzakh08231 Take a bunch of courses then cancel in 30 days and you don't get charged! I tested it. Thanks for the support!

[@kabiebebe2332]

Not bad but want more hippos terrorizing

[@kabiebebe2332]

Ur populations 😂😂

[@FrenchiKO]

Hmm i have mixed feelings about this, almost 6 hours (with editing) is too much for me, i get the spirit of the game but making it impossible isn't either, it makes me think of super mario maker 2,.

[@puzzledzimbo]

Feel sorry for the 49 year old citizens thinking their retirement was just round the corner.

[@Payhellbay]

Pension reforms do be like that 😅

[@puzzledzimbo]

Might I make a suggestion for the developers to give the governors house and senate a purpose in future versions of Augustus? Idea is like in Pharaoh where the governors salary is paid via the senate to the governors house. Failure to build a house will affect Favour rating as how can Caesar respect a governor with no home? Likewise a house that is too lavish for your rank could also affect Favour rating. Maybe also different levels of governors house can determine what sort of gifts can be given to Caesar? An evolved Senate might also earn interest on city funds.

[@ImRandomDude]

how to make everyone happy - remove those unhappy, 10:00, ah my favorite soviet style mood solution

[@chaitanyaatre]

No one knows the spirit of Caesar than the developers of Augustus, so if they have provided a setting, you should have no shame in using it, and you should ignore all those who say otherwise. Games are meant to be enjoyed, not feel miserable about. This culture of "you need to suffer to truly enjoy something" is nonsense. I'm sure the developers of the original would back me up on this as well.

[@xShammehx]

I honestly gotta give you props for the Skillshare ad. It was entertaining, funny, and relevant to the current video series. I recognize the effort and appreciate it.

[@GamerZakh]

Thanks! In glad you liked that, I wanted to have fun with these and anyone signing up for the free trial does help.

[@hitarmada490]

for refrence of the favour gains and losses: Favour: Favour is the reflect of how Caesar sees you and your ability to serve the Empire/Republic. Per year: You will lose 2 points if you pay yourself a salary that matches your rank. You will lose 1 point if you pay yourself a salary that is 1 rank below your rank. You will win 1 point if you pay yourself a salary that is 2 ranks below your rank. Per event: You will lose 20 points if you fail to send troops to help the Empire/Republic. You will lose 5 points if you send help but fail to save the city. You will win 50 points and a Triumphal Arch if you send and save the city. You will lose Favour if you fail to meet the requests sent to your city. You will win Favour if you meet the requests, sending the requested goods early or late will not affect the Favour gain.

[@rhbb8796]

Grand insulae have the same population as large, but are better for prosperity (all grand insulae give 80 rating, while large only 65) AND pay significantly more taxes (+33% if I'm not mistaken), so it's almost always worth it to go for them. Especially on northern maps where the second food type isn't slower growing than wheat (the houses also don't consume the second food type at the same speed, so 4 fruit + 4 wheat farms supply the same amount of population as 8 wheat) Furthermore, in Augustus, providing a second (third, fourth...) food type makes people happier, allowing you to tax them even more, so it's even worth it in southern maps. Supplying extra entertainment (above the level needed for evolvement) is also an easy way to make people happier, so if you can build an arena or tavern, do it!

[@JonMow]

this map is difficult but kinda feel artificially difficult unlike the previous desert map

[@GOTHICforLIFE1]

I completely disagree. It feels like you can't build your standard blocks which you'll find is the case in most natural cities in more challenging terrain. The only thing i could agree on is the passages where you can connect the various city portions. It's a bit "too" convenient when there's only one option to connect your city together. Outside that i think this is one of the better maps out there. Forces you to think differently which i think is a good way to ensure your map is more than pure scenery and numbers.

[@Gamma_]

Zakh mentioned that he couldnt use plazas on roads in this scenario. Is that specific to this map or is that part of Augustus?

[@Qwerty10254]

​@@Gamma_specific on this map

[@Gamma_]

I feel like disabling the ability to build plaza is a more valid argument of this being artificially difficult than the actual map layout itself. Youre not given the full set of tools to conquer this map

[@falsesong7057]

Indigenous people but no way to pacify or trade with them, vicious enemies attacking the starting area but no towers or guard towers allowed, no lion house, no plazas, nerfed trading.. Seemingly for no other reason than to make it more difficult for the player. If it would follow from some kind of story element, it would be fine. But like this, it feels a bit forced and artificial to me. I did watch Zakh play it from beginning to end though, so I can't say it wasn't entertaining :)

[@anastatescu6692]

I really like watching you play Caesar 3. I used to play it as a kid and was scared of playing the military maps and I remember how surprised I was when the first houses evolved to grand villas. It's so nice to watch this game

[@profnunocoelho]

The best ad for skillshare ever 😂

[@GamerZakh]

Haha I'm glad you liked it!

[@GileadMaerlyn]

And you even had 15k denarii to spare in the end!

[@NWA-TjalfeTooStonedToAim]

You would think that with the amount of slaves the romans had available they should be able to move a rock or two :)

[@federicofuentes6146]

Solid, solid ad segue man, one of your best!

[@GamerZakh]

Thank you! I wanted to have a bit of fun with these ones.

[@rahmspinat]

11:42 ahahah "why are you so criminal?"

[@Lebastian]

I'm a viewer who thinks you should enable all Augustus features to make it different from vanilla There might be also OP buildings you are probably missing Feel free to make it more fun ❤

[@yuritavares1916]

It was a brilliant, magnificent, stupendous, unique, and marvelous ad - and I never thought I would say that about an ad.

[@GamerZakh]

Haha I wanted to have some fun with it.

[@Kiara_Wrestler]

Love this game! Keep it up

[@jumbomills1319]

I dig the rage!!!! ALREDY PISSED!!!

[@fm-kx4jo]

the school area reminds me of boarding school complex.. lol

[@ImRandomDude]

1:24:00 why didnt you place fountain on very last tile of reservoir coverage (and maybe even one more above the rock), you would gain so much more watered slots

[@nest1363]

I think you underestimated selling weed. You might have wanted to fish to feed your army and keep the weed around the shore for export/Caeser from the getgo.

[@careca0000]

Lugnudum EX GG, that was a ride

[@FazalFariz]

Changing the retirement age is not cheating. It's like a policy.

[@WillTellU]

I don't think c3 has that much spirit to dictate settings. You could say augustus devs added those settings for a reason. Just some quick reading shows there were times in rome old age was at around 60, so it wouldn't be unexpected people worked till they're 60, or died from some fun disease. Anyway, it's just silly gatekeeping.

[@woodenman999]

Zakh my friend. Show us a video about ( red chaos the strict order) Would be nice. ❤

[@petarkanev8156]

I was expecting to see Zakh destroying houses so that younger workforce cam move in but then he raises the retirement age. He is getting soft 😆 Well done on a great play through

[@GamerZakh]

Thanks! Haha that works but it takes forever

[@Yarrmanarrgarr]

Haircut is looking fresh

[@GamerZakh]

Thank you!

[@upcoming]

I seem to remember that you can use wells instead of walls to keep barbarians out, I think they had more HP than single walls or something like that. Might misremember. Might have been ibly for visibility or something.

[@GamerZakh]

Hmm my concern would be invaders destroying buildings reduces the peace rating. Walls and towers don't count, but well might.

[@jumbomills1319]

Smooth AD. Nice 😊

[@GamerZakh]

Thank you! I wanted to have fun with these ones.

[@DL-wz3kj]

Another great video 👍 Tho why didn't you use the new hauliers building to move goods and food around?

[@GamerZakh]

I started these maps before that was a feature and the maps have been updated since those were added to be designed with them in mind. So if I used the new haulers, I should use the new map versions, but then I can't continue from part 1 and would have to restart.

[@daimahou3951]

_have bought a lot of marble_ Caesar wants marble (haven't asked before or after) _setting changed, which makes it easier to get money_ Caesar wants money (haven't asked for money before) I feel that the mapmaker thought of things. EDIT: also, hope someone at Augustus will think of making the aqueducts go through rocks, because a mountain didn't really stop determined people from getting their water.

[@tempy2440]

9.5/10 on the add read

[@GamerZakh]

Thanks! I'm glad you liked that, I've been wanting to have fun with some of those

[@StoicFlame]

Retirement age should be at least 65 with how fast months and years pass in this game. I guess there’s a substantial guilt that some randoms inflect upon you with their comments: “it’s cheating if you don’t do it in XYZ way ” It’s your achilles heal apparently.

[@GamerZakh]

Haha I just wish they were consistent with their views. Monuments, sentiment, plague, levies, and all that aren't part of the original game but they view it as "in the spirit" just because it makes things harder. I've even been told that options like disabling gods is "not in the spirit" of the game, even though that's an option in vanilla Caesar 3 lol. They forget that there were options like that in the original and they just default to calling it "cheating" because it makes the game easier.

[@hex_1733]

Hey man, I know this is unrelated to the video, but I gotta ask: would you be interested in trying out Imperium Romanum (Gold Edition)? It's sort of a spiritual predecessor to Grand Ages Rome and what got me into city building games. Cheers!

[@greywolf6443]

If something wouldn't be "in the spirit of the game", the game would simply not give you the option. Not to mention that everyone has a right to play the game he or she wants to.

[@GamerZakh]

Yeah so the argument is that the Augustus devs are adding things that aren't in the spirit of the Impressions Game's devs ideas. Of course, I've asked Simon Bradbury directly about Augustus ideas and he said that they would've done things like that too if they had the time.

[@aslanphofficial]

Tournament Maps available for download yet?

[@GamerZakh]

Yes! Link in the description. They've been updated as well to work better with the latest version of Augustus.

[@manumaster1990]

nice

[@blackhat4968]

Does each "Pahh!!" as you go into and out of debt multiple times have an effect on favor at the end of the year? It did not appear to have an immediate effect at the time of the Pahh!! Also you went many years without sending Caesar a gift, and only sent something when you were getting close to the 20 favor mark. Would it have helped to consistently send him something in the early years?

[@KatriceMetaluna]

Cheating would be using Cheat Engine to alter the food/goods quantity values in houses, markets and granaries. It's a two byte signed integer for all of those BTW...

[@KatriceMetaluna]

Why yes there just happens to be 32,767 units of wheat in this house. They have a very big pantry.

[@marylouedmondson3593]

Not everyone needs a fountain ⛲. Give them a well .

[@tdcsguy]

I propose the devs add a city hall / senate wing style monument that has the effect of raising retirement age from 50 to 60. I mean realistically if ancient city states were struggling they would probably implement draconical solutions through forced civics anyway, no? (I know this would be a lot of work with the required artwork and all, but it would also be a fun solution to a late-game problem)

[@kael070]

if this map was on vanilla very few people would have beaten the campaign lol

[@Lebastian]

swap hospital with academy academy increases desirebility 2:04:19

[@Lebastian]

I didn't know you won haha

[@ShMokou]

You can copy/past roadblock settings...

[@GamerZakh]

Yeah I did it in the video.

[@ShMokou]

@@GamerZakh i've just reach that moment in the video...

[@realmiker]

Well this was impossible without raising the retirement age

[@APrettyGoodChannel]

I did it but it was very hard, a lot of fun though. In my playthrough I was spamming saves and reloading a lot, which Zakh managed without. I couldn't survive invasions without my army already moved into place before they arrived.

[@DaveMastor]

GamerZakh built roads. That's clearly against the spirit of Caesar 3. It was hard to see, but I think he was cheating by unpausing the game at the start of the video.

[@GamerZakh]

Haha these are legit the kinds of comments I get sometimes.

[@cdrbb]

was that the greatest ad ever!?

[@GamerZakh]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed that.

[@jumbomills1319]

Can we get a “Zach is pissed” emoji

[@gabrielzilki]

Couldn't you exchange the small temples for oracles? so it would use less workers and cost less fees

[@GamerZakh]

The import cost for marble is 400 per piece, so building 1 oracle costs 1000dn. Plus, a temple is 2 workers, so even if I got a few oracles down, it'll save me what like 20 workers? It would save me levies in the long run, maybe about 500 a year, but I'd need to invest many thousands up front to get just a few oracles down. By the time I had the money to do it, it didn't matter.

[@gabrielzilki]

@@GamerZakh it makes sense. it was very good to follow this game on this map. tks

[@CoCoComet]

I propose that culture and religion buildings should affect the emperor's favor at least a little bit

[@laranjanaranja]

What happens if you would get to year 0 ? Is it even possible ?

[@Fairbuy_]

It is possible, the map can be set to start on that year as well. You can even continue ruling to year 2000 AD if you have the patience.

[@laranjanaranja]

@@Fairbuy_ Is there a message you get about Jesus being born ? Or nothing special happens on year 0 ?

[@Fairbuy_]

@@laranjanaranja No, nothing. It wouldn't fit the game, and there are even some historical evidence about that he wasn't born on year 0.. But the mapmaker can decide to add such a message at year 0.

[@KingAssassinFTW]

This is exciting news!❤

[@gatiodaniel]

Or maybe the exact retirement age should be just another adjustable thing that affects your popularity in some way?

[@rainbowevil]

Maybe. I just don’t find the ageing mechanic interesting at all in Caesar 3, it’s basically just a mechanic to punish you for taking your time completing the mission with no interesting approaches or strategies to play around with.

[@Pierre-Jonqueres]

1:52:50 I... actually disagree with everything in here xD They don't have to impose their feelings. Everybody plays the way they like. You want it harder, do it harder, you want it easier, play it easier. As long as you don't pretend breaking records when changing all the rules. Which, you, Zakh, don't. But. Yes Augustus, but looking at the map, it's spaces, it's arrangement, and the different areas, it's actually meant to be played more efficiently and also, some areas are not meant for what you used them for. This map would have been a lot easier to play if you allowed yourself to move entire infrastructures once discovering a new area and if you played more efficiently, thus, the argument of "Augustus" is harder, even if true, doesn't apply in here. As this map is meant for Augustus, to be more of a challenge, and thus more difficult. (For example, areas 1 and 2 with their water coverage availability and their size are actually meant to have quick military response + trade + population / timber and ore industries should have been moved away to more narrow ones) Good job nonetheless for beating it. May the "PAH" be with you !

[@PlayLisTV4u]

hello

[@jumbomills1319]

Such a Japanese lady clap at 1:52:30 😂

[@Omilron]

Not even close to the hardest map there is but a very good map indeed. :)

[@falsesong7057]

So you cheated, huh? But seriously, even in vanilla I think the retirement age is too low. People used to solve that issue by destroying houses to kick out the old folk. Or by keeping city health low so people wouldn't get old at all. Raising the retirement age is a far more humane solution. And more fun game play wise.